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jerichothebard said:Ok - my orcs are a little strange. They look, physically, like the 3e MM orcs, I think - hairy, bestial features, tusky/fang teeth, a little slouched over, big hands, long arms...
But their culture... oi.
Imagine for a moment, if you will, what would have happened if the Norse, at the height of their civilization, had invaded the Polynesian/Hawaiian islands, at the height of theirs.
Yup - orcish barbarians in grass skirts, sailing square-sailed outriggered boats around a huge archipelago, and crushing heads.
Boggles the mind, doesn't it?
Actually... that reminds me of the kara-kara from the OD&D module Drums on Fire Mountain. They were an orc offshoot with a pseudo-Polynesian culture, who lived on a small island claimed by the empire of Thyatis in Mystara's Known World.
Incidentially, the kara-kara exist in my setting as a subrace of Homo orcus... they refused to worship Gruumsh, so the "normal" orcs made war on them, forcing them to flee across the ocean to my world's analogue to the Pacific rim.